Design for Drupal is about bringing the community of designers together to be a part of the Drupal community. It’s about enabling designers and themers to do great stuff, coordinate efforts, come up with crazy ideas, and build a movement to make Drupal beautiful.
For specific questions about theming and how to make Drupal look a specific way visit http://groups.drupal.org/theme-development
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Design for Drupal does not exist
Two things have become cear.
- There is no such thing as Drupal Specific Design
- Number 1 is only true if the project budget has no limit
The concept of Drupal Specific Design is false. There is nothing we can't do in Drupal, given enough time and resources. Yet, there always ARE limits on time and resources, which brings me to the next questions: how do you define Drupal Specific Design? What are the design patterns in Drupal that are easy to deploy, and which are hard?
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D4D Drupalcon SF meetup
Come hang with the cool kids before Drupalcon san francisco
This is an informal meetup for the designers / frontend geeks, themers etc you know who you are ;)
The plan is just to meet eachother before the con, and try to put a quick plan into play of where and what we wanna do with beautiful Drupal. Last
The meetup will be somewhere in the conference center. more info will follow
It will be sunday before the con at 15:00
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HTML5 (base) theme for Drupal 7?
I've done some googling but haven't found much on this. So I'm posting this because where else should a discussion, info pointers, soundings off, etc happen than in D4D?
- Who's interested in this topic and pursuing implementations? (Who already is? I know there's some kind of Zen theme effort.)
- What are the challenges?
- What does this mean about the RDFa layer?
- Where are some ongoing current discussions on this?
Thoughts?
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Sending directions from computer to phone
I am trying to make it easier for customers to send directions to a phone off of a website. Is there any new technology out there that can help with this? I have been reading on drupal and I have found that you can send phone to computer but I have not heard of anything that does computer to phone technology.
Read moreFlash Theme Engine for Drupal
something i feel that drupal at this time is seriously lacking is interactive flash based themes.
a lot of people think that integrating flash with drupal is a no-go mainly because drupal is a php webapp...and flash is well.. a designers tool.
But if you can mash flex, actionscript 3.0, AMFPHP[a remote gateway specifically for flash and ,[ click here ] and the drupal services API. it is very well possible to envision a theme engine that allows users to create amazing flash sites with drupal.
Read moregetting email from groups.drupal.org Japan off this list
i am getting email in my box labeled from "groups.drupal.org Japan" most of which is in japanese, but when i click on the link in the email, it takes me to design for drupal list, which i did sign up for. did the two list combine or something? what is going on?
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NYC Themers Play Day March 20, 2010
A "Play Day" is the Themers version of a "hack-a-thon". Come with a question or a project and, well, play. As always, dr00bies are welcome, but don't expect "sessions" or "presentations" ... expect to get your hands, um, dirty?
All are welcome!
This event is "sponsored" by the Local NYC Themers Guild
Same Place: Food For Thought In Bed-Stuy, BKLYN
thesixtyone.com a great new music site. It's like a myspace music site, but, done properly and with elegance.
This isn't a Drupal site, but, I was blown away by the elegance in the layout and design. A superb example of a simple but very good site.
Apart from the general look n feel, I like the way the iconised navigation is implemented. Superb.
Great music too!
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Theme Developer Install Profile + Dummy Content Generator
One of the things themers run into when developing themes for contributed themes is having to do lots of configuration and create dummy content in order to be able to style it. Devel is a big help in this regard, but more is needed. Things like pagers, blocks with different types of content, polls, support for popular modules, etc. are not things that immediately jump out at a theme developer/designer as things they need to worry about.
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